1670 in music

The year 1670 in music involved some significant events.

Events

• June – Christian Geist joins the Swedish court orchestra under Gustaf Düben.
• October 14 – First performance of Molière's Le Bourgeois gentilhomme, a five-act comédie-ballet – a play intermingled with music, dance and singing – at the court of King Louis XIV of France.

Publications

• Angelo Berardi – Discorsi musicali

Classical music

• Angelo Berardi – Sinfonie a violino solo con basso continuo Libro primo, Op. 7
• Maurizio Cazzati – Op. 55, a collection of sonatas
• Jacques Champion de Chambonnières – Les Pieces de clavessin, Livre premier
• Marc-Antoine Charpentier – O pretiosum, O salutiferum, H.245
• Denis Gaultier – Pièces de luth sur trois différens modes nouveaux
• Giovanni Legrenzi – Acclamationi divote, Op.10
• Pavel Josef Vejvanovský – Baletti pro tabula in C major for 2 trumpets, organ, strings (CZ-KRa A 885)

Opera

• Ludovico Busca – L'Ippolita, Reina delle Amazzoni

Births

• January 24 – William Congreve, lyricist and librettist (died 1729)
• July 18 – Giovanni Bononcini, cellist and composer (died 1747)
• July 19 – Richard Leveridge, singer and composer (died 1758)
• September 9 – Andreas Armsdorff, composer (died 1699)
• date unknown
  • Julie d'Aubigny ("La Maupin"), opera singer (died 1707)
  • Pompeo Cannicciari, Italian composer (died 1744)
  • Henry Eccles, English composer (died 1742)
  • John Christian Jacobi, composer (died 1750)
  • Turlough O'Carolan, harpist (died 1738)
• probable
  • Antonio Caldara, composer (died 1736)
  • Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer, composer (died 1746)

Deaths

• April 6 – Leonora Baroni, singer, musician and composer (born 1611)
• April 23 – Loreto Vittori, Italian castrato singer and composer (born c.1590)
• July 18 – Giuseppe Allevi, composer (born c. 1603)
• date unknown
  • François Du Fault, composer
  • Cornelis Thymenszoon Padbrué, composer (born c.1592)